Beautiful Disaster

By Claire Davis

Sometimes love happens when you are busy making other plans.

Karen is a beautiful woman that always seems to have the worst luck with men. Her latest boyfriend was an abusive self-centered jerk who still lived in an era when women served men. Dealing with all these issues has exhausted Karen so much that she wanted to escape everything. She takes up a job to assist a troubled man who previously had a small business of his own. He is now broken and wants to end his life but Karen proves to be his savior who and strives to show him that life is worth living. They both know that they can't stay with each other, but they fall in love. Kevin begins to see that life is indeed good, but Karen wonders whether they really are good enough for each other. Love isn’t enough to survive and Karen knows it better than anyone. And just below the surface is a truth that may set Karen free...or shatter her forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eye Know Romance Publishing
• Release date: Feb 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463861318

Claire Davis

Claire Davis is the author of Season of the Snake and Winter Range, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares, been read on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts program, and been selected for the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Price anthologies. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho.

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Beautiful Disaster

Expect The Unexpected

By Claire Davis

143 Publishing

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2020 Claire Davis

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 1:

It was a long, weary day for him as he fidgeted with his hands. There wasn’t a lot of movement in his hands, but he felt as though they moved on their own, and he wasn’t even able to stop them.

He looked out the window and shivered a little as a gust of cold wind signaled that winter was about to set in. The weatherman had predicted a harsh weather ahead for the residents of Seattle, but the man who sat with a hopeless look in his eyes couldn’t care less.

It had been years since he’d lost his will to live. No matter what the doctors said, it always felt like a lie, and no matter how much his family sympathized with him, he couldn’t feel anything but contempt. He couldn’t stand pity, but he received nothing but pity. It drove him insane because he had always been a workaholic, but after the accident, it would be a feat just to find something to do.

The accident brought back vivid memories to him. Although those memories sliced through his heart painfully, he derived a sadistic pleasure by hurting himself. He couldn’t explain it – hell, he didn’t want to explain it – but strangely, he felt better whenever he hurt himself. The accident had taken everything away from him in an instant. It was a miracle that he was alive, but apart from the fact that he was still breathing, he only felt useless.

The psychologist thought that he needed time, and his mother believed that he’d get better miraculously one day, but he instinctively knew better. Deep down his heart, he knew that he would always remain a cripple who was stuck in his wheelchair. Even if he somehow managed to brave everything he faced and stay alive, he would still remain a handicap – a word he hated from the bottom of his heart. He was sick of the whispers he’d hear whenever he ventured out with his nurse, and even though he had mastered the art of ignoring them, he couldn’t quite bring himself to look into anybody’s eyes.

And now, he had even reached a point of hurting people deliberately. He thought about his harsh words – the ones that could slice through anyone’s heart. He thought about how her eyes filled with tears as soon as he had uttered those words. He didn’t want to be that person anymore. He didn’t want to be reduced to a sadistic person who hurt others because of his agony. He didn’t want to face her anymore.

He had always blamed himself for the